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May 10 Wednesday1:00 PM → 2:15 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Jim Resnick (retired Battalion Chief), Program Manager, Senior Outreach & Education, Montgomery County Fire and Rescue ServiceLocations: Oasis at the Macys Home StoreJim Resnick from the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service will provide a look at this important aspect of your safety while at home and away. We will learn how to select and care for your cell phone charger, laptop charger, microwave, TV, heating pad, lamps, and many other electronic devices that are such a large part of our... read more -
May 10 Wednesday1:00 PM → 2:15 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Jim Resnick (retired Battalion Chief), Program Manager, Senior Outreach & Education, Montgomery County Fire and Rescue ServiceLocations: Online ClassJim Resnick from the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service will provide a look at this important aspect of your safety while at home and away. We will learn how to select and care for your cell phone charger, laptop charger, microwave, TV, heating pad, lamps, and many other electronic devices that are such a large part of our... read more
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May 15 Thursday1:00 PM → 2:30 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Mary Efimetz, Events and Special Visits ManagerLocations: TripJoin Glenstone's Landscape Superintendent, Matt Partain for a short presentation about the sustainability and regeneration efforts at Glenstone, an internationally-recognized art museum with a strict environmental mandate. The talk will be followed by a tour of the Environmental Center and surrounding grounds. Comfortable and durable footwear is... read more -
May 9 Thursday1:00 PM → 2:30 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Dan Sherman, PhDLocations: Hybrid - At Oasis and OnlineFor more than 50 years, Julliard-trained composer Peter Schickele assumed the mantle of P.D.Q. Bach, a forgotten and musically incompetent son of the great Johann Sebastian Bach. Both onstage and on many records, Schickele created wonderful parodies of classical music. The jokes Schickele created drew widely on classical music and satirized musicology... read more -
May 6 Friday10:30 AM → 11:45 AMSessions: 1Instructor: John DeFerrari, AuthorLocations: Online ClassThis class will provide an overview of DC restaurants, beginning with the opening of the first "true" restaurants in the 1820s, continuing through the Civil War and the excesses of the Gilded Age, the rise of informal eateries in the early 20th century, and the proliferation of ethnic cuisine in the postwar years. There will also be special mention of... read more -
May 6 Friday1:00 PM → 2:30 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Carol Marak, Founder, Elder Orphan Facebook GroupLocations: Online ClassNot having someone to look after us when we are older is a red flag for adults living alone. This class will help participants logically think through the aging hurdles: health, social connections, support, housing, life purpose, strong faith, finances, legal matters and more! This class will equip participants with the tools to become better... read more
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May 11 Thursday1:00 PM → 2:30 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Paul Tukey, Journalist, Author, HGTV host, FilmmakerLocations: TripJoin Chief Sustainability Officer Paul Tukey for a short presentation about the sustainability and regeneration efforts at Glenstone, an internationally-recognized art museum with a strict environmental mandate. The talk will be followed by a tour of the Environmental Center and surrounding grounds. Comfortable and durable footwear is recommended. The... read more
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May 13 Monday1:00 PM → 2:30 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Seth Kibel and FriendsLocations: F. Scott Fitzgerald TheaterSummer is just around the corner! Join us to kick off the new term with a bang! Join Seth Kibel and Friends for a whirlwind tour of music from Latin America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and beyond. This musical journey will set your toes tapping and your spirits flying! Doors open at 12:30 pm. This event is sponsored by AARP Maryland with... read more -
May 13 Monday1:00 PM → 2:30 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Seth Kibel and FriendsLocations: F. Scott Fitzgerald TheaterSummer is just around the corner! Join us to kick off the new term with a bang! Join Seth Kibel and Friends for a whirlwind tour of music from Latin America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and beyond. This musical journey will set your toes tapping and your spirits flying! Doors open at 12:30 pm. This event is sponsored by AARP Maryland with... read more
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May 9 Monday1:00 PM → 2:30 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Vincent Rossi, Historian & Author, Co-Owner Story SeekersLocations: Online ClassFrom 1951 to 1971 a government laboratory in Corona, California gathered some of the most brilliant scientists in service to the national defense. That work included the creation of the first guided missiles in the U. S. arsenal. Vincent Rossi will discuss his book, From Measures to Missiles, which tells the lab’s... read more
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May 15 Monday10:30 AM → 12:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Owen Ullmann, Journalist and AuthorLocations: Online ClassPolls consistently show that Americans overwhelmingly worry about the rising national debt accumulated by the U.S. government for more than two centuries. But is it as big an economic threat as many experts contend? On the eve of a showdown in Congress over raising the debt ceiling, we examine exactly what the debt is relative to the U.S. economy and assess... read more -
RECORDEDMay 19 Monday10:30 AM → 11:30 AMSessions: 1Instructor: Ellen Cassedy, Organizer and AuthorLocations: Online ClassThe author of the new book "Working 9 to 5" tells the inspiring story of the working women's movement she helped to found, including the inside story about the Hollywood movie and Dolly Parton's toe-tapping anthem. How far have women workers come since the movement began, and what does the future hold? Come prepared to share your tales from the work... read more -
May 15 Monday10:30 AM → 12:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Owen Ullmann, Journalist and AuthorLocations: Oasis at the Macys Home StorePolls consistently show that Americans overwhelmingly worry about the rising national debt accumulated by the U.S. government for more than two centuries. But is it as big an economic threat as many experts contend? On the eve of a showdown in Congress over raising the debt ceiling, we examine exactly what the debt is relative to the U.S. economy and assess... read more
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May 14 Tuesday10:30 AM → 12:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: David B Lindauer, Lt. Colonel (Ret.), US Army Signal CorpsLocations: Hybrid - At Oasis and OnlineWith all of the recent WWII presentations that focused on various campaigns in Europe, we sometimes lose track of an equally hard-fought war in Asia. For nearly four years British and Indian forces fought a very arduous campaign in southeast Asia, not only against the Japanese but against hunger, disease, jungle conditions, mountains, and monsoons. And... read more -
RECORDEDMay 19 Monday1:00 PM → 2:15 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Steve Lorberbaum, Owner, Assisting Hands Home Care PotomacLocations: Hybrid - At Oasis and OnlineTalking to doctors and navigating the health care system can be challenging. Gain insights from certified senior advisor Steve Lorberbaum for successfully advocating for yourself or loved one in the hospital. This discussion will help you be a strong advocate ready to support a friend or loved one. This class is sponsored by Assisting Hands Home Care... read more -
May 15 Monday1:00 PM → 2:30 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Joseph Hartman, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Government, Georgetown UniversityLocations: Online ClassThis program will consider one of the most famous works of political thought addressing the American experiment in democracy, Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. We will explore Tocqueville's framework for understanding American democracy in the context of his larger account of the movement of history from aristocracy to... read more -
July 9 Thursday10:30 AM → 12:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: John McCarthy, Montgomery County State's AttorneyLocations: Hybrid - At Oasis and OnlineThis class will focus on the top dozen cases, both civil and criminal, heard by the Court during the past year. Special emphasis will be placed on evolving trends and voting blocks on the Court. As always, issues related to criminal decisions will be discussed in... read more -
May 10 Tuesday1:00 PM → 2:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Lola Sparrowhawk, Author/HistorianLocations: Online ClassTechnologically sophisticated people with highly developed engineering skills left Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum 26,500 years ago and may have developed a fantastic civilization on a continent in the Atlantic Ocean, just as Plato described. Plato situated Atlantis in the Atlantic west of the Pillars of Hercules. He described an island paradise... read more
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May 16 Tuesday10:30 AM → 12:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Dan Sherman, PhDLocations: Online ClassBorn in Austria, Billy Wilder came to Hollywood in the 1930s and quickly became one of the best-known and most-awarded screenwriters and directors in America. Wilder's career spanned nearly 50 years and many genres of film. His film masterpieces include Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot, and The Apartment. We'll talk about this Hollywood... read more -
July 9 Thursday1:00 PM → 2:30 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Joan Hart, Art History Instructor, Museum One, Inc.Locations: Online ClassWe’ll take a leisurely virtual walk through Impressionist master Claude Monet’s famous water lily garden at his Giverny home. Ms. Hart will also offer you highlights from 30 years of Monet's water lilies paintings, culminating in the panoramic series now displayed at the Musee de L’Orangerie in Paris. Monet was in his eighties, with cataracts and... read more
